The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz, sentence 74
Those creatures frightened me so badly that my heart is beating yet.”
Who acts: creatures, heart · What happens: frighten, beat · To what, where: me
This is a sentence of «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Chapter VII. The Journey to the Great Oz. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (creatures, heart), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 creatures | det |
| 2 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 frightened | nsubj |
| 3 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 frightened | obj |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 badly | advmod |
| 6 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 frightened | advmod |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 beating | mark |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 heart | nmod:poss |
| 9 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 beating | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 beating | aux |
| 11 | beating | beat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 frightened | advcl |
| 12 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 11 beating | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 frightened | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 frightened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frighten | past | that creatures | me | badly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | beat | present · progressive | my heart | yet | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Wonderful Wizard of Oz» by L. Frank Baum, Project Gutenberg book 55 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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